It's awful isn't it. Our last renewal took me about a fortnight to fill in, once I'd finally made myself sit down and do it (and only then because the deadline was very close). Do you have last times to copy?

unfortunately our computer caught fire last summer and all my records from last time went up in smoke (that's taught me to back stuff up)

and that's a great idea about writing down all the positive things - ds's school swimming coach wrote a glowing report about him for his annual review - it made me want to cry as it was just so lovely to read - and also made me realise it was the first completely positive report we'd ever had about ds - I still want to hug his coach!!!